This book describes the discovery and excavation of Knossos by Sir Arthur Evans and what the site revealed about the Minoan civilization.

Traces the history of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages which followed through a description of common objects, tools, clothes, dwellings, food, and day-to-day activities of the people in both the cities and in the country.

Describes the discovery of the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamun and what it revealed about everyday life in his time.

Presents, in text and illustrations, a range of people whose way of life reveals various aspects of the society developing in Europe and America from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

A collection of myths about Thor, Balder, King Gylfi, and other Nordic gods and goddesses.